Recommended Restaurants in Praslin: 

     1.     Café des Arts

After taking the left lane from Berjaya’s Beach facing bungalows or walking left in the beach area, you’ll come across a nicely decorated restaurant Café’ des Arts. It has an entry from the beach side and has a very romantic aroma. The back side entry (from Berjaya’s lane) will take you to Restaurant’s sitting area directly and also to its boutique shop. They also offer Creole’ dishes but dishes here were having a lot of variety than the basic creolean’ dishes we had over the days. Try their grilled fish; you’ll definitely feel the difference. Owner is a very friendly and warm lady. Highly recommended for its tasty food and colorful and romantic ambience.

 Entrance from the Beach

     2.     Les Lauriers

Come here for the expansive buffet and complete country atmosphere.  Their salads and meat offerings were quite lavish. And both meat and grilled fish were succulently cooked. I had such a great feast that I couldn’t try much of the dessert offerings. Initially the place looked a tad overpriced, but their meal and service made it worth every bit. Their buffet spread was 30 Euros/Person.

     3.     Gelateria de Luca

It’s a quiet little Ice-cream parlor just ahead in the lane to Berjaya resort. It also serves great Italian food. Try their mouth watering pizzas and savor on some sundaes. Their Ice-cream flavors have very distinctive taste and their tropical fruit sundae is very refreshing to taste. Suits your pocket, I think it’s a good restaurant on a budget.  

Tropical Sundae

     4.     Bon Bon Plume

If someone can win award for the perfect place to open a restaurant, its got to be Bon Bon Plume. After travelling to reach Anse Lazio and then swimming and draining out, all one asks for is a nice sip and decent food. What you get here is amazing variety of food and well prepared and presented. We tried their crab and lobster and also Mango refresher for drinks. You can pick up Seychelles traveller’s Maps from the billing counter. Its right on the beach and is at the entrance as soon as you arrive after parking your car.

Crab @ Bon Bon Plume

Recommended Restaurants in Mahe:

    1.     La Scala

Service is what they sell here. Friendly owners, helping you out with selection of food and wines and fresh catch of wish waiting to be grilled on your choice. Some of the seats are overlooking the ocean from the window, and extremely courteous staff, ready to help you with everything. This is one of very few restaurants which do not take a service charge, but they definitely deserve some, because of their warmth and style of serving food. Their red snapper in garlic sauce with some tasty wine makes your day. They also have very nice pastas to delight your taste buds.

Grilled Red Snapped in Garlic Sauce

     2.     La Plaine St. Andre

The restaurant has a very posh setting, with vintage lamps and wooden tables and chair setting. The bar has some of the most exquisite drinks and wine glasses hanging like a perfect pub setting. The restaurant is a bit up market in its prices but their service was well worth it. Their drinks menu had maximum variety we found in Seychelles.

     3.     Pirates Arms

Pirate Arms is located right in the heart of the Victoria market, amazing place to interact with people and always buzzing with crowd. The waiters will always seem in a rush, with the amount of customers they have to cater to. Service is very quick, unlike most places and prices are very reasonable for both food and drinks. This place also has a Casino with running ticker of money at stakes for the interested folks.

Morning started with beautiful weather with slight drizzle and gentle breeze. We had kept the day reserved for Trek to Anse Major, but rains had put some doubts in our mind. To add to it, the Public Holiday meant disruption in public services offered.

Since, the Anse Major trail starts only from 3-4 kms west of Beau Vallon, we hadn’t booked a taxi for the same. Anyways, we motivated ourselves to go ahead with the plan and waited for the bus outside our resort. We waited for about 15 mins and had no hope for a bus coming in this direction, but there were a lot of private cars travelling this way. Since, our destination wasn’t far, we thought of trying to ask someone to give us a lift. To my surprise, it took us only a few attempts before we could find a nice family going to the village Bel Ombre’, which was the starting point of our trek.

The drive to the village was scenic, we could see a church, community town hall, small jetty areas along the coast and the road itself was running parallel to the ocean. The couple dropped us at the Bel Ombre bus stop and we could see the highly recommended La Scala restaurant. There was also a reserved parking for the restaurant visitors. It appeared closed though, since it was still only 11 in the morning.

The trail starts a bit more uphill from here, and about a kilometer and a half further from the bus stop. Before reaching the starting point, we saw a lot of construction activity on this side of the island, we also came across a Batman inspired house, though the owner and strict signage for not clicking any photographs. There are two-three trails that start from here and we asked directions from a local for the Anse Major.

The trail starts off in a jungle with a well laid pathway, one can find cardmom trees in abundance here. Only after a kilometer it curves out across a hill onto the Ocean side. Thus you get a lot of great views in this trek. The total ascent –descent across the whole trek is not much, though it’s little long with 5 kms to the beach and return.  There are some viewpoints in the trek, some wooden bridges and a lot of rocky paths. Thus, because of the rains we had to be little cautious along the way.

Anse Major Beach in the Background

The beach itself was small, but very peaceful. Two couples joined us after an hour, after we arrived on the beach. They were brought here in a motor boat, starting from beau vallon beach area. There was a changing area made in woods besides the beach. I really liked the corals here, which had smaller fishes but very colorful variety.

After grabbing some snacks, we slept sometime on the beach, as weather was so relaxing and beautiful. No sun today, I only wished I had a beach volleyball or some activity to do. The two hours at beach were really great. We started back on our trail, as we didn’t want to get too late and wanted to return in time before sunset.

On our way to Anse Major Beach

Rains had stopped by the time we had arrived to the beach, but had left the entire path wet. So, we retraced our paths equally carefully. We reached back at around 6:30 and wanted to grab a bite. We inquired from the La Scala restaurant and they said they would start serving from 7:30 PM onwards, they were preparing for the dinner. So, we made our reservations for a beach facing table, and thought of grabbing a beer. There was a small eatery, about 500 meters down the road along with 2-3 small grocery stores.

Our gourmet @ La-Scala

After utilizing some time, we arrived again at La Scala for dinner. The fresh catch of the day was placed in a ice rack, and we selected a Red Snapper for the grill. Ordered a glass of wine and waited for our order to come. The owners were very warm and welcoming and looked after every detail by themselves. To read more about its review- Visit here.

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